David Michelinie

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David Michelinie

Born	May 6, 1948 (1948-05-06) (age 60)
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Writer

David Michelinie (born May 6, 1948) is an American comic book writer.

Some of his earliest work is for DC Comics's House of Secrets and a run on Swamp Thing (Vol. 1, #14-18, 21 and 22), following Len Wein and preceding Gerry Conway, illustrated by Nestor Redondo.

His most famous works include two noted runs on the Iron Man series, with co-writer (and inker) Bob Layton, in the late 1970s and early 1980s which introduced the character's serious problem with alcoholism, his specialized power armor variants and his new enmities with Justin Hammer and Victor Von Doom. He also introduced one of Stark's closest comrade, the fearless pilot, Jim Rhodes. His most noted cliffhanger was when Tony Stark was thrown out of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s helicarrier and had to don his armor completely to use its flight function before he hit the ground.

In the late 1980s, he also wrote a popular run on The Amazing Spider-Man series which featured the art of Todd McFarlane, Erik Larsen and introduced the popular supervillain Venom. Michelinie had planned to introduce Venom earlier and did include a "teaser" scene in Web of Spider-Man #18, in which Peter Parker is pushed by an offscreen Venom into the path of an oncoming train, the symbiote being immune to Spider-Man's "spider sense" that would have normally warned him of the attack. This was the first of what was to be several clues leading to the reveal of Venom. Michelinie left Web of Spider-Man shortly after and was not able to continue the introduction of Venom until his time of writing on The Amazing Spider-Man, which started with issue #290. Subsequently he became the writer of Action Comics following Roger Stern's lengthy run, which ended with #700. He also worked at Valiant Comics on the books Rai and H.A.R.D. Corps.

He also has the record of having the second longest run on The Amazing Spider-Man comic (behind only Stan Lee).^{[citation needed]}

Michelinie returned to creating comics by teaming-up with Bob Layton and Dick Giordano to form Future Comics. The company closed down after only two and a half years in business in 2004.

In 2008, he re-teamed with Layton once again for a four-issue Iron Man: Legacy of Doom miniseries for Marvel Comics.

In the credits of numerous comics, his name is misspelled as "David Micheline".

1 Selected bibliography
- 1.1 Marvel Comics
- 1.2 DC Comics
2 References

[edit] Selected bibliography

[edit] Marvel Comics

Amazing Spider-Man #205, 290-292, 296-352, 359-388 (Volume One)
Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21-26, 28, 1995
Spectacular Spider-Man #173-175
Spider-Man #35
Venom: Lethal Protector #1-6
Web of Spider-Man #8-9, 14-19, 23-24, 70
Iron Man #116 to 157
Iron Man #215 to 250
Iron Man: Legacy of Doom #1-4
Star Wars: Marvel #55-69
The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones #4-18, 20-22, 26-27

[edit] DC Comics

Action Comics #702 to 736
Unknown Soldier in Star Spangled War Stories #183-203

Valiant Comics Rai 1-6, 8. H.A.R.D. Corps 1-16.

[edit] References

Michelinie's Spider-Man Credits

Preceded by Bill Mantlo	Iron Man writer 1978–1982 (with Bob Layton in 1978–1981)	Succeeded by Dennis O'Neil
Preceded by Danny Fingeroth	Iron Man writer 1987–1989 (with Bob Layton)	Succeeded by Dwayne McDuffie
Preceded by Tom DeFalco	Avengers writer 1979–1981	Succeeded by Bob Budiansky & Danny Fingeroth
Preceded by Roger McKenzie & Frank Miller	Daredevil writer 1980	Succeeded by Frank Miller
Preceded by Jim Owsley	Amazing Spider-Man writer 1987–1994	Succeeded by J. M. DeMatteis
Preceded by Roger Stern	Action Comics writer 1994–1997	Succeeded by Stuart Immonen